Gen. Duong Van “Big” Minh, the man recorded in history as the South Vietnam president who surrendered unconditionally to Communist forces on April 30, 1975, has died in Pasadena. He was 86. Minh, head ...
Despite superior firepower and colonial experience, France could not subdue the Viet Minh when fighting erupted in 1946. This ...
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Why France Couldn't Crush the Viet Minh
Why couldn’t France crush the Viet Minh after war broke out in Vietnam? In this episode we dive into the brutal opening years of the First Indochina War, from the outbreak of violence in Hanoi in ...
In 1954 the Viet Minh armies had the military capability to crush the French completely and take over the whole of Vietnam, North and South. After the fall of Dien Bien Phu, there was little doubt the ...
Blog posts represent the views of CFR fellows and staff and not those of CFR, which takes no institutional positions. What if? Those two words are easy to ask, whether about our own lives or world ...
“When we entered into the bunker, we ordered the French officials to surrender. General de Castries kept a straight face while [the] others … [put] their arms up. I was so tense that I pushed my rifle ...
This year marks the 80th anniversary of the establishment of the League for Independence of Vietnam, or the Viet Minh Front (May 19, 1941-2021). A meeting to launch the rising up in arms to seize ...
President Ho Chi Minh spent four autumn nights sitting in front of a typewriter to draft Vietnam's Declaration of Independence in 1945. He did it in the attic that also doubled as a dining room and ...
Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap earned his reputation as one of history's great military commanders on May 7, 1954, when 16,000 French soldiers surrendered to him at Dien Bien Phu after a 57-day siege. The ...
Visiting the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi is a profound experience – revelatory, even. I had not expected to see the great liberator of Vietnam’s actual body, lighted from above. And shortly after, ...
In the final months of World War II, a small team of American commandos parachuted into the mountains of northern Vietnam to train Ho Chi Minh’s guerrillas to fight Japan. They were members of the OSS ...
Four crewmen display a welcoming banner for Vietnamese refugees coming on board the attack transport Bayfield for passage to Saigon from Haiphong, 3 September 1954. (National Archives) A bit miffed at ...
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